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magentagalaxies · 2 months ago

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commented about the buddy cole documentary on a youtube video that has nothing to do with the kids in the hall and just got a reply from someone who hasn't heard about the doc but LOVES scott thompson saying they're so excited that this project exists and immediately subscribed to my channel. i'm so happy genuinely the best part of my night

second best part of my night was watching john mulaney's netflix talk show live and texting scott asking if he wants to (re)watch it together when i'm in town and getting the reply "i'd love to do that. he is fantastic" (the fact that scott is a major john mulaney fan makes me so happy bc mulaney was one of the first comedians i was obsessed with)

third best part of my day was listening to the "masturbation fire" bit from kevin mcdonald's standup for the first time (he referenced the story when i met him irl but i didn't know the full story was available anywhere until now)

also i made a reference to "too many cooks" at dinner and realized my brother had somehow never heard of it so i'm very excited to hear his reaction. i'm usually a person who doesn't care about spoilers but watching "too many cooks" with zero expectations is such an experience i'm lowkey jealous of him seeing it for the first time lmao

#originally this post was just about the first thing but then i kept listing good things. but i think it's good for me #especially bc my mental health has been kind of inconsistent this month it's good to celebrate the good patches #and i get to go to toronto on friday!!! and the editor is working on putting the trailer together with the materials i sent!!#the context for the first one is that it was a video about an upcoming documentary that raises a lot of questions about ethics #bc it depicts a situation where the filmmaker could have very easily intervened to alleviate harm and chose not to for their content #and my comment was about how people sometimes give me shit for not being a ''fly on the wall'' bc the conversation around documentary ethic #often starts and ends at not intervening. when there are absolutely circumstances where it's okay to intervene #and in dire situations (which i thankfully have not experienced in my production but the documentary being talked about did)#there are times where the ethical thing to do IS intervene rather than exploiting someone else's discomfort for your own gain #bc as fly-on-the-wall as some documentarians try to be. the very act of having someone filming inherently does make an impact #anyway i expressed this and how i've had to learn to shut out shitty advice that leads to situations like that #and since i knew people would ask i was like ''btw my documentary's about scott thompson and we're crowdfunding soon''#and that comment got ten likes so far and one new subscriber who's a fan of scott!#my youtube comment game has been on fire lately lmao idk why

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